GUEST POST by Meradeth Houston: Why Write About Time Travel?

Today's post includes a guest post provided by Meradeth Houston. All images in this post were provided by BookFish Books LLC, and the author bio and synopsis for Travelers were given to me by BookFish Books LLC.


Today we have a guest post by the lovely Meradeth Houston. She is the author of Travelers, a new YA book published by our good friends, BookFish Books. Today BookFish have asked me if I'd like to host a guest post for the blog tour of Travelers, and of course I said I'd love to!

So, here's what Meradeth said about writing about time travel.


Guest Post: Why Write About Time Travel?

Why write about time travel?

We’ve all had those moments (or days/weeks/months/years) we wish we could go back and do over. Where something or someone set us on a course we didn’t expect and it all just imploded from there. Or maybe it was saying that one stupid thing that you should have just kept your mouth shut about (I have this one a lot, can you tell? ;). But those moments happen, and I think everyone at one point or another has wanted a do-over. In real life, there’s no such thing. We’re stuck with the consequences of our actions. So maybe that’s one of the reasons time travel is so interesting: the chance to go back and change something that we do desperately wish went differently.

Or, maybe it’s because there’s something in the past we’ve always been fascinated by and we wish we could go back and see firsthand. My day job keeps me busy studying past people and their lives, and I know I have always wished I could go back and see just how it all really worked in the Great Kivas of the Southwest, or the temples in Mexico. Our work today just scratches the surface of what it must have been like the in the past. And writing about going back to see those things, well, in some ways it’s like getting to experience them—even if it’s only in my head.

And of course, there’s people we lose along the way—who doesn’t want to be able to spend one more day with someone who has died? Even if we haven’t lost someone close to us, there are plenty of people in the past we might want to meet, learn from, or just join for tea. (I have a seriously nerdy wish to meet Gregor Mendel and talk to him about his experiments. He’s totally my historical crush!) In TRAVELERS, it’s this wish to save the life of someone who died that creates the mess that Sienna ends up in. As much as what Joan does is wrong, I can totally understand her motivation.

Anyhow, there’s a million reasons why we might want to travel to the past or future, and these are just a few that got me thinking along the lines that led to Travelers. How about you? Why might you want to time travel?


Great post. Thanks, Meradeth!

I thought that now you might want to learn a little about Meradeth and her new novel, Travelers.

About Meradeth


I’ve never been a big fan of talking about myself, but if you really want to know, here are some random tidbits about me:

>I'm a California girl. This generally means I talk too fast and use "like" a lot. Since I now live in Montana, sometimes this is a problem.

>I have my doctorate in molecular anthropology. Translation: I sequence dead people's DNA and spend a whole lot of time in a lab, which I love.

>I've been writing since I was 11 years old. It's my hobby, my passion, and I'm so happy to get to share my work!

>My other passion is teaching. There's nothing more fun than getting a classroom of college kids fired up about anthropology! This is probably a good thing, since my day job requires me to teach at the local university.

>If I could have a super-power, it would totally be flying. Which is a little strange, because I'm terrified of heights.

Find Meradeth Houston online at:

www.MeradethHouston.com

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About Travelers

 Sienna Crenshaw knows the rules: 1) no time traveling beyond your natural lifetime, 2) no screwing with death, and 3) no changing the past. Ever. Sienna doesn’t love being stuck in the present, but she’s not the type to break the rules. That is, she wasn’t the type until her best friend broke every one of those rules to keep Henry, her twin brother and Sienna’s ex-boyfriend, alive.

Suddenly, Sienna is caught in an unfamiliar reality. The upside? Henry is still alive. The downside? Sienna’s old life, including the people in it, has been erased. Now, Sienna and Henry must untangle the giant knot in time, or her parents and all the rest of the Travelers, will be lost forever. One problem: the only way to be successful is for Henry to die.



Travelers released on August 4th, so be sure to check it out!